Type-containing channel.



No. 650,397. Patented May 29", I900."

L. K. JOHNSON &. A. A. LOW. v

TYPE CONTAINING CHANNEL.

(Application filed June 20, 1398.) (No Model.)

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LOUIS KOSSUTH JOHNSON AND ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOIV, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.-, ASSIGNORS TO THE ALDEN TYPE MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TYPE-CONTAINING CHANNEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,397, dated May 29, 1900.

Application filed June 20, 1898. serial No. 683,959. (No model.)

T0 mZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, LoUIs KOSSUTH J OHN- SON and ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, citizens of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Containing Channels, of which the following is a specification, sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use the same.

Our improvements relate to type-containing channels for use in either type-setting or type-distributing devices in which the types are arranged side by side in lines or columns.

The invention consists as an article of manufacture of a type-containing channel having one side wall of less width than .the other, the opposed wider wall being formed with a rectangular flange, which constitutes a front guard for the faces of the types, the space between the edge of said guard or flange and the forward edge of the side wall of lesser width constituting a longitudinal slot, which exposes the front ends of the types and allows access thereto without danger of displacement or loss of the types. In other words, while the structure of the channel prevents the removal of the types except in a prescribed manner it affords opportunity for correcting or adjusting the types in the column through the lateral opening or longitudinal slot referred to. Thus made the channel is especially convenient and advantageous when used for the storage or transportation of the types, While the cost of the channel thus formed is considerably less than it would be were it provided with any of the external appliances used for closing thefront of the channel temporarily or otherwise.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 represent opposite sides ofourimproved type-con taining channel, partly broken away. Fig. 3 is a front View, and Fig. 4 a rear elevation, of the same. Fig. 5 is an end View thereof.

The channel 0 has projecting from its spine 0 the wide wall to and the narrower wall a, said walls being parallel to each other, or substantially so, as heretofore. The front edge to of the wide wall is formed with the lateral flange f, projecting laterally across the'channel. This flange f is preferably formed at right angles to the side wall to and may be made to project for the whole or any portion of the length of the channel, as may be desired. The narrow wall a is of such width as to form or leave between its front edge and the flange f a longitudinal slot 8, through which the front ends of the types may be seen and manipulated, if necessary.

WVhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an article of manufacture the type-containing channel 0 consisting of the spine 0, the narrow wall 71., projecting at right angles to said spine, the wide wall to, projecting from said spine parallel to the said narrow wall n, and the lateral flange f, projecting from the front edge of the wide Wall to, at right angles thereto, across the front of the channel only, so as to form a longitudinal slot 5, between said rectangular flange f, and the forward edge of the narrow wall n, the whole being made in one integral piece, as and for the purpose shown and described.

Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, GEO. WM. MIATT. 

